Volume : IV, Issue : I, January - 2014

Lean Meat Production in Broilers with New Polyherbal Formulation AV/LMP/10

B Mane, K Ravikanth, A Thakur

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Meat fat contains saturated fat and cholesterol which may increase the risk of atherosclerosis & other associated diseases. A study was conducted to assess the efficacy of dietary supplementation of herbal formulation AV/LMP/10 (supplied by m/s Ayurvet Ltd Baddi, India) on meat quality attributes and production of lean meat in oilers for 0-6 weeks. Seventy five day-old Ven Cobb oilers chicks were divided randomly into 3 groups of 25 birds each. All the groups were fed with standard basal ration. Group (T0) was control without any supplement, group (T1) was supplemented with AV/LMP/10@500 g/tonne of feed and group (T2) was supplemented with AV/LMP/10@1 Kg/tonne of feed. The growth performance, carcass and sensory characteristics, proximate analysis of meat and lipid profile of meat was evaluated at the end of the experiment. At day 42, significant results in terms of mean FCR (1.83, 1.82 and 1.81), dressing percentage (%) (65.26, 63.82 and 65.41) and lean meat content were observed in treated groups as compared to control. The protein content (%) of east and thigh muscle was significantly high (P<0.01) in treated groups as compared to control, whereas the fat (%) and cholesterol (%) content for east and thigh muscle were lower in treated groups as compared to control. Significant difference in saturated fatty acid, mono and poly unsaturated fatty acids content was observed between treated and control groups. Overall acceptability in terms of flavour, tenderness and juiciness was significantly better in treated group T2 as compared to T1 and control. It can be concluded from the present study that the herbal lean meat product AV/LMP/10 was found to be effective in production of lean meat (chicken), which may be attributed to hypolipidaemic and hypocholesterolemic properties of constituent herbs viz. Commiphora mukul, Allium sativum & Trigonella foenum graecum and many more in fixed concentration.

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B Mane, K Ravikanth, A Thakur Lean Meat Production in Broilers with New Polyherbal Formulation AV/LMP/10 Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. I

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